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Definition of Epigrams
1. epigram [n] - See also: epigram
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigrams
Literary usage of Epigrams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"The most elegant and wittie epigrams of sir James Harrington, the translator of
... But these epigrams do not so properly belong to the class before us. ..."
2. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"BOOK REVIEWS Select epigrams from the Greek Anthology. ... Ten epigrams included
in the earlier edition have been omitted, while twenty new ones have been ..."
3. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... trifles in 1620 : but I have since ascertained that these initials belong to
HENRY PARROT, who printed, in 1613, a collection of epigrams in two parts; ..."
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